On April 18, 2026, as spring unfolds along the Nile, the Aswan High Dam stands as a testament to human ingenuity, controlling the river that shaped ancient civilizations. This colossal structure not ...

The dam is 111 m (364 ft) high and 3,830 m (12,562 ft) long, with a base 980 m (3,220 ft) wide. Its mass of earth and rock reads as a broad, low ridge rather than a slender wall, and the scale becomes ...

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 1968 file photo, an Egyptian worker waves as he stands on top of a rock overlooking the partly constructed power station on the Aswan High Dam, Egypt. Egyptians are marking 50 ...

Over the past decade, observers have watched with trepidation as tensions increased between Egypt and Ethiopia over the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River.